Strawberry Cream Dessert

Sometimes, DH sees recipes, and brings them home to me to try. Since it’s difficult to get him to tell me what he’d like me to make more of sometimes, I usually make anything he brings home as a request.

This was one of his requests, taken from a local ‘free’ newspaper called The Merchandiser. All the while I was making it, it sort of reminded me of my strawberry pretzel salad…I guess it was the use of jello and fruit.

There’s a lot of ‘processed’ foods in this, but oh well. I’m far from a purist.

Strawberry Cream Dessert

(Local newspaper)

*Note from the recipe: This cool and elegant dessert will serve a crowd. You could use the chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreos), for the crust if you’d like, but I think the golden variety is really nice.

30 Golden Vanilla Sandwich Cookies (Golden Oreos)

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 (6 oz.) package Strawberry Jell-O

1 3/4 cups boiling water1 (6 oz.) can pineapple-orange juice (DH and I had a conversation that they USED to sell these 6 oz. cans of juice similarly to how they sell mango and pineapple juice in the ethnic sections nowadays. I had no luck finding these little cans, so I just bought myself a 64-oz. Dole Orange-Pineapple juice in the OJ section, and had tons left over for drinking/smoothies)